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We cut UK cloud bills under GBP pressure while keeping UK data in eu-west-2 (London) per UK GDPR and ICO guidance. 2026-maturity FinOps — forecasting, governance, FOCUS showback, AI/GPU cost control, and 30–40% waste teardown.
UK cloud budgets are under real GBP pressure, but UK GDPR and ICO guidance mean personal and regulated data should stay in-region and cross-border transfers must be justified.
SquareOps keeps UK data in eu-west-2 (London) and drives savings from in-region levers — commitments, Graviton, Spot, rightsizing, and waste teardown — wrapped in a 2026-maturity operating model with forecasting, governance, and FOCUS showback.
Four families of optimization, all executed inside eu-west-2 — no residency compromise.
Right-sized Savings Plans and Reserved Instances tuned to your real usage curve — coverage without over-committing.
Move suitable workloads to Arm-based Graviton for better price-performance — assessed, tested, and rolled out safely.
Spot capacity for fault-tolerant and batch workloads, with graceful interruption handling so reliability holds.
Continuous rightsizing of EC2, RDS, and EKS from real utilization — cut the gap between provisioned and used.
Before any commitment purchase, we strip out the spend that delivers nothing. Typical idle-resource reclaim in a mid-size eu-west-2 account:
Ranges are illustrative for a mid-size AWS account — your free 37-check audit returns figures specific to your environment.
Run the free 37-check Cloud Cost Audit. We review your eu-west-2 account and return a prioritized teardown plan with a GBP savings estimate — no obligation.
Run a Free Scan in SpendZeroUK-hours delivery anchored to eu-west-2 (London) — residency held in-region, savings driven in-region.
We work in UK business hours and to UK GDPR/ICO expectations — finance, engineering, and compliance reading the same numbers.
Real client outcomes and a success-fee model that ties our reward to your savings.
Commitment portfolio plus waste teardown with FOCUS showback — UK data held in eu-west-2 throughout.
Forecasting, budgets, and anomaly detection gave finance GBP predictability for the first time.
Seasonal autoscaling and Graviton savings with personal data kept entirely in the London region.
"They lowered our AWS bill in pounds without ever moving our customer data out of London. Compliance and finance were both happy."
Where UK GDPR residency and GBP cost discipline both matter, our in-region model fits.
Banks, insurers, and fintech under FCA expectations — UK data in eu-west-2 with a clean audit trail.
Subscription platforms where GBP margin depends on cost-per-customer — showback, forecasting, commitments.
Seasonal, spiky traffic where over-provisioning is costly — autoscaling, Graviton, and waste teardown.
All fees billed in GBP with VAT at 20%. Pick the model that matches your risk appetite.
A no-cost 37-check review of your AWS account with a prioritized savings estimate. The best place to start.
We're paid primarily from the money we save you. Incentives aligned, downside risk minimized.
Ongoing optimization with SpendZero — anomaly detection, commitment management, and continuous rightsizing.
Point us at your AWS account and we'll run all 37 checks — idle compute, orphaned storage, NAT and load-balancer waste, commitment gaps, and Graviton candidates — then hand you a prioritized plan with a GBP savings estimate. Everything stays in eu-west-2.
Residency, billing, and how the optimization actually works.
Yes. We keep UK personal and regulated data in eu-west-2 (London) and drive savings from in-region levers — Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Graviton, Spot, and rightsizing — plus waste teardown. Any cross-border data flow is documented and justified against UK GDPR and ICO guidance.
Personal and regulated data should stay in-region and international transfers need a lawful basis. That rules out naive region arbitrage for regulated workloads, so savings come from commitments, architecture changes (Graviton, Spot), rightsizing, and waste teardown inside eu-west-2.
Beyond one-off cuts: forecasting and budgets, anomaly detection, FOCUS-aligned showback for unit economics, AI/GPU cost control, and a managed commitment portfolio. The goal is GBP spend managed forward with governance, not explained after the invoice.
A no-cost review of your AWS account against 37 cost and efficiency checks — idle compute, unattached storage, orphaned NAT gateways and load balancers, Savings Plan and RI coverage gaps, Graviton candidates, and more — returning a prioritized plan with a GBP savings estimate. No commitment required.
Yes. We right-size accelerators, schedule training to off-peak and Spot capacity, separate training from inference, and put guardrails and showback on GPU usage so the fastest-growing line item maps to product value.
Both. We can run a one-time teardown and commitment exercise, or operate ongoing managed FinOps with SpendZero — forecasting, showback, anomaly detection, and continuous rightsizing. Most UK clients start with the free audit, then move to managed FinOps.
Same residency-first approach, localized to each market's rules and currency.
Talk to a SquareOps FinOps engineer about your eu-west-2 workloads, or kick off with the free 37-check audit. Residency-first, billed in GBP.
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